Reckoning with New Orleans flooding, a teenager investigates the city's water pumps | PBS Short Docs

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  • @IHCOYT
    @IHCOYT ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This was really great! Chasity was amazing too!

  • @reseswank7749
    @reseswank7749 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Good Job Chasity Hunter. I am so impressed and proud of you for this investigation report. Water is Life.

  • @LynHannan
    @LynHannan ปีที่แล้ว +5

    10:38 "You are a person now". Thank you, I now know what to tell my two young adults.

  • @raymarshall4809
    @raymarshall4809 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wow well done.

  • @jamieprantil7544
    @jamieprantil7544 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    14:49 watched to end. Thx Reel South. Thx Chastity Hunter. This entire video was music to me, I also grew up where pump pipes get overwhelmed and have to release too much or too polluted water. Called Pipers Creek Watershed, in Seattle WA. I am a passionate Hydrogeologist. She will go far, and I wish her all the best. Connection to your time and place is a gift. Much luck, support and love.

  • @Dee-pm8tl
    @Dee-pm8tl ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Any city would flood with extreme rates like 10 inches in 3 hours. Above, below, beneath, underneath sea level doesn’t matter. Tbh, the pumping system in Nola is actually amazing for what it is, especially when other cities are underwater after 3-6 inches (New York). My neighborhood in Nola usually clears within 20-30 minutes after extreme downpour storms. My aunt Uptown has also noticed improvements in drainage as infrastructure projects complete throughout the city. Again, other cities lose literally entire homes from far less rain.

  • @durangodoug338
    @durangodoug338 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good for her!

  • @kbirds2
    @kbirds2 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great job Chasity! Unfortunately New Orleans has a long history of poor management by ignorant, corrupt politicians. Several of the pumps did NOT work during Katrina and because of the way we vote, that is still the case today. Very unfortunate. New Orleans is a beautiful city with a beautiful culture. Who we vote for in the city needs to change and Chasity, YOU can be the voice of change. (Costal Erosion and the destruction of our Barrier Islands is the root of the problem.) We need to rebuild the barrier Island system as well as the delta system to reduce the impact of future storms while getting city government to maintain our pump system. They should ALL be FULLY FUNCTIONAL 100% of the time 24/7.

  • @noanyobiseniss7462
    @noanyobiseniss7462 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That guys a role model unlike all those cops that ran away like little girls.

  • @atomatman3104
    @atomatman3104 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    YOU SHOULD MOVE GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN.

  • @rsaunders57
    @rsaunders57 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    9:52 Saying "instead of accepting what makes each place unique ..." is a great idea. Perhaps the things that make New Orleans unique make it a place where humans should not live.

    • @Zgembo121
      @Zgembo121 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      indeed... btw im typing this from the frigid north canada

  • @libramagyk
    @libramagyk 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Because it's a fish bowl

  • @lowbudgetmic
    @lowbudgetmic ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Flood myth at its real deal…. 😮

  • @pamelafayebradshaw
    @pamelafayebradshaw ปีที่แล้ว

    🙏

  • @nadnavlis240
    @nadnavlis240 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Why does New Orleans get flooded? Build a city that's 9 feet below sea level right next to the ocean an that's going to happen. It's been happening since the city was built hundreds of years ago. No investigation needed. Duh.

  • @ericmarks6322
    @ericmarks6322 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That's easy......It floods because the city is below sea level.

  • @onegreatstarfish
    @onegreatstarfish ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the slowest moving short doc in history....

  • @37903abc
    @37903abc ปีที่แล้ว

    Below sea level.

  • @whitb62
    @whitb62 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Because it’s a swamp that humans pulled the water out of. Humans should have never lived there.

  • @Anuchan
    @Anuchan ปีที่แล้ว +1

    But what's the answer? What will political involvement solve? In 50 years New Orleans will be underwater.